UVI Meteor - Swell and Impact Designer

Overview

Designed for and by composers, sound designers and musicians, Meteor is a creative tool that delivers rich and layered swells, dramatic crescendos, and powerful impacts. Outfit 7 sample layers with a massive collection of sounds from field recordings and effects to exclusive orchestral sessions directed specifically for Meteor. Intuitively mix, modulate and apply high-quality effects to polish and perfect your sounds, then perform them synced to the action or musically with polyphony and velocity support. Meteor provides a deep feature set complemented with a fast and intuitive workflow, yielding everything from futuristic builds and surgical impacts to rich and emotive musical environments.

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In Depth

Workflow

Meteor's interface was designed for efficiency, providing the appropriate level-of-detail for the task at hand. Looking for inspiration? Load it up, set the desired rise and impact times, quickly audition presets or click the randomizer for an endless supply of unique configurations, then crank the Thrust knob to take your sound to the next level. Want to customize your sound or prefer building them from the ground up? Click the 'Settings' button for detailed controls, design each layer with a huge selection of sounds and controls, then finalize it with modulations and bus effects.
If you want to use Meteor as an instrument in your music, turn off "Hold" and play the sounds with full control over pitch, velocity and timing.

Structure

At a high-level Meteor is a 7-track sample player divided into 2 sections, with 3 layers dedicated to rise sounds and 4 layers dedicated to impacts. Each layer offers both general track controls including volume, pan, bypass, mute, solo and effect sends for reverb and delay, as well as controls specific to the layer type. Rise tracks each include a customizable velocity curve, volume and pitch modulation, multi-mode distortion and a multi-mode filter. Impact tracks each include time offset, transient and tail length, multi-mode distortion, multi-mode filter, pitch glide and an IRCAM Granular mode.

Both the Rise and Impact groups have track locks allowing you to make changes to individual tracks or all tracks simultaneously, along with bypass, octave switch and randomize/undo functions. Rise time can be set in either free or beat-sync modes and can be locked to maintain your timing while browsing presets. Impact timing defaults to the end of the rise sound, but can be offset forwards or backwards to play in sync, delayed or anywhere in-between - combined with individual layer offsets this allows for the creation of varied and complex sequences.

Subtle-to-wild motion can be added to your sounds by way of an LFO, Multi-Step Filter and Multi-Step Panner, each able to target the Rise and Impact groups individually or together. Stereo bus effects include a high-quality 3-band EQ with low-pass filter, convolution reverb, delay, width and a unique compression/enhancer effect called 'THRUST', providing a powerful one-knob control of the overall intensity of your sounds.

Sound, Designed

The sound library of Meteor has been meticulously designed to provide a wealth of inspiring and useful material for years of hit-making. From exclusive field recordings, foley, synthscapes and textures, to effects and instruments including symphonic orchestra sessions directed specifically for Meteor.

Field recordings and foley were captured by our sound designer team in different places (including a junkyard and a farm) to provide rich tonal beds and organic micro-details including plenty of glass, metal, rock and organic materials, along with gunshots, explosions, whacks, thwacks and thuds provide physical sound with striking clarity.

Synthesized sounds created in Falcon specifically for Meteor add massive weight and presence, from rich bass and textures to glitches, warps, sizzles, complex noises beds, synthetic swells and futuristic effects.

Special symphonic orchestra sessions were recorded exclusively for Meteor to provide powerful and emotive musical building blocks with pure highs, detailed mids and an accentuated and deep low-end. These included a string session with 32 cellos and double-bass in a full-stage arrangement, a brass session focused on the deepest tones made up of tubas, bass trombones, french horns, bassoons and contrabassoon, and a percussion session with 4 percussionists capturing all sorts of builds and impacts.

A creative and powerful sound design tool with an immediate and intuitive workflow, Meteor delivers emotive orchestral gestures, dynamic risers and thunderous impacts perfect for film, games, music and more.

In conversation with

Antoine Martin
Creator of Unlock

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SPECS

WHAT YOU GET

Size:	6.48 GB (FLAC lossless encoding, was 11.13 GB in WAV)
Content:	699 Presets, 3,891 Samples
Sample Resolution:	48 kHz. Recording at 96 kHz
License:	3 activations per license on any combination of machines or iLok dongles

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Runs in UVI Workstation version 2.6.15+, and Falcon version 1.4.1+
iLok account (free, dongle not required)
Internet connection for the license activation
Supported Operating Systems:
- MacOS 10.14 Mojave to macOS 14 Sonoma
- Windows 10 to Windows 11 (64-bit)
7 GB of disk space
Hard Drive: 7,200 rpm recommended or Solid State Drive (SSD)
4GB RAM (8 GB+ highly recommended for large UVI Soundbanks)

COMPATIBILITY

Supported Formats:	Audio Unit, AAX, VST, VST3, Standalone
Tested and Certified in:	Digital Performer 8+, Pro Tools 2019+, Logic Pro X+, Cubase 7+, Nuendo 6+, Ableton Live 8+, Studio One 2+, Garage Band 6+, Maschine 1+, Tracktion 4+, Vienna Ensemble Pro 5+, Reaper 4+, Sonar X3+, MainStage 3, MuLab 5.5+, FL Studio, Bitwig 1+, Reason 9.5+

MANUAL

>> Download Meteor Manual >> Download Soundbank Installation Guide

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Reviews

"Meteor is absolutely incredible, you guys did a stellar job on this!"

Richard Devine

Electronic Musician, Producer & Sound Designer
(BT, Aphex Twin, Funkstörung, Monolake, Nike, Touchstone Pictures)

"Meteor is a fast, intuitive way to create unique sweeps and stings for movies and TV. Hundreds of fantastic samples in multiple layers and many useful, creative tweaks throughout. Along with a great sounding FX section, velocity sensitivity and smooth pitch shift over several octaves allow for multiple colors from a single preset. The randomize feature keeps things interesting and if you're in a real hurry, the presets are awesome. Meteor is an incredible value in sound design software. Highly recommended!"

Adam Kopald

Sound Editor & Designer
(The Revenant, Super 8, Pearl Harbor, Oblivion, The Amazing Spider-man, Armageddon)

"Definitely the Swiss Army Knife of sound design tools! Meteor is a perfect combination of flexible engine and rich content in an inspirational interface!"

John Valasis

Producer, Composer & Sound Designer
(BBC, Amazon Prime, VICE, Xbox, Ableton)

"The layering options that Meteor offers makes creating endless. There are so many rich sounds to choose from."

David Prep Hughes

Grammy-nominated Recording & Mixing Engineer
(Calvin Harris, Drake, DJ Khaled, PartyNextDoor)

“Meteor is a really unique tool for sound designers, producers and film composers. Every sound is entwined in an elaborate dance with a collection of other sounds to create patches that are complex, useful, musical and cinematic.”

Ask Audio

“Great sounding set of samples in a very easy to use and customizable engine. This is a welcome instrument for those of use creating music for trailer or sound design for anything needing a fresh and modern take on impacts, downers, wooshes, and risers."

Sample Library Review

“As a sound design tool this plugin is incredible. There’s also an extensive collection of presets to use as starting points. Many are actually quite usable as instruments, so this isn’t just for games and movies but music too.”

AudioPluginGuy

“Playing with this is epic! If you’re looking for dramatic rises and impacts, or things that go ‘thud’ in a massive way, then you’ve got to check this out.”

Production Expert

“Everything is clear to use and the interface is gorgeous. Meteor is definitely recommended!”

The Samplecast

“The quality of the sounds is supreme. It’s not only interesting for producers, but for DJ’s to create their own sound effects for live sets, composers for scoring movies, and also for creating audio effects on videos in general.”

Padbangers

"We’re impressed. [...] Meteor is not a short cut, it is an efficiency improvement."

Making Music

"Meteor FX is about to become the trailer composer’s filthiest little secret – it’s a stinger-machine by any other name."

AudioProducerNews

"An innovative and inspiring sound effect creation tool that perfectly walks the line between ease of use and complexity."

Epicomposer

"[In the Final Fantasy VII remake] commercial libraries like UVI Meteor and Whoosh FX were used frequently." - Makoto Ise

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User Testimonials

“Meteor is a beautiful tool whose presets, sound quality, and dynamics are just insane! The possibilities tweaking presets to create new sounds is just crazy!”— Jonathan W.

“The folks at UVI have crafted an exceptional vst with their new product Meteor FX. Probably gonna be my go to for all orchestration needs.”— Weird City CEO, Twitter

“This is an excellent instrument. Far more control and flexibility than the other kits I have. There has to be 1000s of combinations.”— Allan H., VI Control

“I immediately started to design my own sounds, I think this is a limitless tool!”— D. Hendon, Sweetwater

“It’s really amazing and very intuitive.”— Tomas K., YouTube

“Very dope! A must have!”— DJ FATZ Producer, YouTube

“You can lose some days playing with this.”— Luiz F., YouTube

“Sounds awesome.”— Sébastien B., Facebook

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